Talking with my family for Christmas!!

December 25, 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVeryone!!!!!! :):):) Great to hear from you all!! What a wonderful Christmas it was this past year!! Oh the joy that comes with the season it's beautiful!!! My last Christmas on the mission but it was one I'll never forget it was so much fun!!! Thank you all for your support, love and prayers.. I really appreciate all that you do and am very grateful to all of you!!

 

As you can see I'm starting to do paragraphs due to a special request from Dad on the phone! haha So it's easier to read I guess! Well from the top of the week we traveled up North on pday and spent the beginning of the week with the missionaries in Kaikohe and also Kaitaia:)  That was a lot of fun but also a sacrifice on our part!  We were out of our area for a little too long! We spent some of pday with them, and on Monday night did blitzes in their areas.  Went to their district meeting and than after that hopped in on the missionaries serving in Kaikohe.  Went in threesomes and that was really fun.  I got to work with our new district leader and his new missionary.  Elder Ngalu and Lamb.  That was awesome they're great missionaries! On the other hand the other two missionaries in Kaikohe are a bit of a struggle!! More stuff we had to work out.  One of the missionaries completely denies listening to any of his leaders because he says he's out here alone and has things to work out.  One morning he just wouldn't leave the flat! Just laid there not saying a word and than all of the sudden he freaked out at around 12 and started throwing things and ripping things off the walls! Crazy eh?! So President gave him a call, crazy missionary!! Interesting guy.. Anyways besides that the trade offs were really fun and we were able to learn a lot! I love trade offs and working with other missionaries! That's like my favorite part about this whole Zone Leader thing.  So Wednesday night we drove back to Whangarei.  On the way Elder Spence nailed a massive feasant! That was pretty funny!! So got pics with our kill.  We've killed quite a few animals on the roads on accident of course!! haha All this traveling business!

 

So back in Whangarei we went right back to work! Got back our faithful Elder Singh to us!  Brownie was set to be baptized on Christmas Eve so we tried our best to contact him right away!  Called and texted him heaps! Went over there a few times, even got members to pop in every now and again and we were never able to catch him before the weekend! :( So that was the sacrifice about all those tradeoffs.  Because now we are going to have to wait until New Years Eve to baptize him!! All good his soul will be saved and that's all that matters!  Dec 23 was Joseph Smith's birthday so that was cool! ha Christmas Eve was fun because we were able to set up solid appointments that night which was lucky! I was a bit worried we'd have nothing to do because everyone was with their families.  But Christmas eve was good! Some of the other elders had 3 baptisms so we went to all of those! Nothing like watching a baptism!! Especially on the Mission!! :)

 

Christmas day was so so so  much fun!!!! :) We went to our ward at 9 for just an hour and had a Christmas program and everything.  Than we had to stay for the next ward for Elder Singh.  And it was scorching hot it's a joke!! Doesn't feel like Christmas at all!!! After church we went to Bishop McDonald's for lunch, our bishop.  Heaps of family there that was a lot of fun!! They gave us quite a lot of presents as well so that was very nice of them!! Got quite a few presents from members and such so that was fun!  After that we went back to the flat and talked with the family!!! :):):)  Best Christmas present ever!!!! Nothing beats that!! It was a lot of fun the whole family was there!! Everyone sounds exactly the same!!! Even says the same sayings I swear!! Ben being a dork:) Krystal defending him as always! Brooke saying "very good".  Amber proving she's the best at writing me! haha everyone was exactly the same it's crazy but it was so good to talk to them all!! Made me miss everyone that much more!! Oh how I love the family!!! And mom and brooke making it a tear jerker! haha And than of course Dad being strictly obedient and making sure the call didn't go longer than what we're supposed to! But it was wonderful to hear from everyone again!! :) All my siblings, spouses, and the new additions to the fam! What could be better?!  After I pulled myself together we went to Moko and Yvette's for even more food!! They had a massive kai ready for us it was awesome!! :) I love them to death!!! They are recent converts of about a year and were not going to church much anymore so we helped them best we could! A few lessons, dinners, and blessings later they're doing great again! So it was fun spending time with them and little Zion!! :) Adorable little girl!!  After that that was about our Christmas!! When we came back there was even more food left on our porch!! haha The members here are wonderful!!! It was a great Christmas!!! Guess it's still Christmas for you guys!!! So Merry Christmas!!!! Really cherish this time, especially with the family and please remember what it is truly about... Our Savior.. As our loved ones are near let us express gratitude, and give praise to he who loved us he even gave his life for all of us.. I love my Savior and I know with all my heart that he lives.. What a time of hope and peace, celebrating the birth of Jesus the Christ.. For he is the Prince of Peace, our hope, our salvation. May we never forget and remember and reflect upon these truths again and again...

 

I love you all and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! :):):)

 

Love Elder Devey

December 18, 2011

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!! :)

 I wish you all a wonderful very merry Christmas!! What a beautiful time of year! The best time of year!! Hope you all have been enjoying it very much and that you will continue to do so!! May we all remember Christ more fully in our lives and strive to rededicate ourselves more fully in following his loving footsteps.. I love you all very much and I hope you all know that!!!! :)

 Things have been absolutlely wonderful here!! Miracles have been poured out to us this Christmas season and also during Elder Spence's "overtime"! haha He past his 2 year mark a couple of weeks ago, this will be his third Christmas in the field! Crazy huh?! But we've been blessed greatly! We were able to witness the baptisms of Roimata Louder and also NarissaMay on Sunday morning!! Most stressful baptism ever though!! Because of circumstances I wasn't able to get pics I'm so sorry!!! These ones will have to be mental pics! But it turned out to be wonderful and we're so grateful that we were able to be a part of it and to witness it!! There's always such a beautiful spirit when life saving ordinances are being performed.. I love it!! Nothings better and it makes everything worth it!! :)

  So starting off with the beginning of the week!! Last pday was utterly destroyed!! I won't give you too much details but an elder in our zone got sent home early.. It is very sad, but because of whatever was going on we had to do all sorts of crazy stuff for President.  He kept calling us and also made sure that this elder was with us constantly! So we had this companionship with us ALL the time and it was pretty strange and creepy because we basically know everything that happened! So awkward as!! But that elder is gone now and we have his companion, the awesome Elder Singh, a Fijian stayin with us now! Goofy Fijian guy he's the man!! So now we're in a 3some til the end of the transfer.  So pday we didn't do anything, just had to hang out with them at their flat! Oh well!

 But monday night was fun! :) Saw all those we usually see on Monday nights, had some fun lessons, and got the man Brownie to do a Harmonica solo for us, he's incredible!! He's been a musician for like 40 years! It's way cool!! Anyways on Tuesday we had our Christmas Conference with the Zone.  Like I said before Elder Watson came up here.  It was WAY fun!!! :)  Massive feed it was insane!!! Elder Watson is awesome!! Learned so much and it really kicked it in for the Christmas spirit!!  So that was a lot of fun!! Everything else was going good just getting things organized for the weekend for the baptisms!

 On Wednesday something happened pretty funny! We had an appointment for our car to be serviced and this was the only time that they could do it.  It turned out to take a lot longer than we thought and we were stuck walking everywhere.  And not kidding we scaled like our entire area on foot for two appointments that fell through while it was raining! It was a trial that's for sure but we talked to heaps of people on the way and just had fun with it so it was all good!! It's all about our attitude! Felt like the days back with Baraniko where we walked all the time with his two broken arms!! haha So that was a good experience for us but it wiped us out cause Elder Spence and I are getting fat just being in a car constantly! So it was good to get some exercise!!

 We did a trade off with some of my favorite elders in a little farming community called Dargaville outside of Whangarei.  I was with Elder Bills who is a brand new missionary that I love! He reminds me so much of Jarin Lamph! So it's always fun being around this Elder!  On Friday we went to have a lesson with Brownie at the end of the night where we found him in very poor shape... He's still remaining faithful and has basically quit smoking overall.  But his exgirlfriend pulled a horrible move and ended up taking a lot of Brownie's money.  Brownie had only baked beans in the cupboard. We gave him a blessing and with the 3 of us we used our funds to go buy him food at the end of the night, miraculously before paknsave closed and got them their food and they were able to have dinner that night and have more food to help them out.  We got the ward on him now because they were struggling!  So things are good now! Brownie has to go to town and busk for money.. He uses his talents and makes quite a bit in town but things have been getting hard for him lately.  It's great to see the ward fulfill it's purposes and help those in need. Just like in Manurewa back in the day this happened quite a bit with our investigators.  So glad God uses us as instruments in his hands to help others, especially those who really need it.. So Brownies doing good now and he's still looking great for Christmas Eve!!

 I've been blessed greatly on my mission during this Christmas season it's beautiful!! :) So things have just been absolutely wonderful as of late!! So Saturday is when some chaos happened with the baptisms, and it's amazing how the Lord provided for us!!! Saturday night we go to see Roimata and it turns out she's staying the night at her \grandmas which freaks us out because she's getting baptized at 8 before church the next morning!! the dad won't tell us where the grandma lives because the family there hates missionaries or something.  So we go to see Brownie and we're like what are we gonna do! We pray for God to show us the way.  Than at Brownies there's this girl we've never met before and we just randomly ask her trying our luck.  Do you know Roimata? She's like ya she's my best friend!! Than we ask her if she knew where the nan lived and she did!! Haha we go there a bit hesitant cuz we have knocked this house before and they freaked out at us!! We knock and there's people home but noone would answer so we keep knocking and we did like 7 times forcing them to answer! Than this big Maori guy with heaps of tattoos comes out and looks angus as!  We're like uh oh!! Than we just politely ask for Roimata and he's like sure! oh yep! She comes out and she's all good so we just arrange for a member to pick her up in the morning from there.  Than we rush to finally find whites that fit! Stressful as! The next morning was worst! The fonts heater broke so it was freezing, white dress didn't fit one of them so they run to find something else! Roimata still needed an interview from bishop and they came late!! Sacrament was about to start and heaps of members we're coming in when we finally started! haha It was pure chaos!! But than it invited such a special spirit when it did happen because so many people were there, right before church started. 

 I had the privilege of baptizing NarissaMay.  Brother Bourne our ward mission leader did Roimata's.  Than we did the confirmations and of course Brother Ngawaka called on me again.  So I did NarissaMay, and Elder Spence did Roimata's.  More blessings hold on! Clayton the man got the priesthood that day as well and he asked me to bestow it upon him, that's the first priesthood ordination I have ever done! So more blessings of missionary work!! Than Elder Spence and I got to do 10 minute talks each!!! :) Than we teach our classes!!! Etc etc etc!!!! Just a super busy awesome Sunday!!! It was one of my favorites so far in the mission field it was so much fun!!!! Pure chaos though!! I swear we both lost all our hair!! haha but it was all totally worth it that's for sure!! So we've been blessed with 3 so far this month and we got Brownie next weekend on Xmas Eve!!! So Merry Christmas!!! Things have been wonderful!!!! :):):) Well I love you all so much and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

 

Love Elder Devey

Mount Whangarei and Clayton's baptism

December 11, 2011

Merry Christmas!!

Hi there everyone!!! :) Well can I just say especially at this time of year I miss you all very very much!! It finally has started feeling like Christmas season even though it is blazing hot here! Haha and that's because of the Spirit of Christ as of late! Things have just been going super lately! The Lord has blessed us greatly! I hope that he has been blessing and watching over you all as well this special time of year.  Though I know he is! I pray for you all always and wish you all the best!! :)

 This last week was an awesome week! A few miracles to relate and also just nothing better than serving the Lord I'm telling ya!! So starting off last Pday was really fun! We went with the whole Whangarei district up to a peak that overlooks the city of Whangarei and took pictures and things and went and played touch and such! So that was fun I'll attach pictures of those. That monday night was super busy with lessons with some keen wonderful people! Things are looking promising!! As they always are I suppose!

  On Tuesday, due to how the mission did last month President has been doing "specialized trainings with all of the missionaries in each zone.  So he and the APs came up and did this training and also went forth and did trade offs with all the missionaries! Cool huh?  That's what I really like about President, he loves getting on the battlefield and joining the ranks! So that was a lot of fun!! :) We then on Wednesday had another Zone Leader Council, they just come and go so fast! So we traveled down and stayed the night and went in the morning.  I always love those meetings.  Get to learn so much and it's always such a wonderful experience!  And I got Christmas packages from the family and from the ward!! Yay!! So thank you to all who participated in that! It's always fun getting gifts!!

 On Thursday we had a miracle! Roimata, a girl we've been teaching for awhile is the coolest girl ever!! She's goes to church all the time, has even given a talk and is just awesome! But the dad is a staunch Ratana(a Maori religion)(Break off from our church).  And he refuses to allow her to get baptized because she was Christined when she was young.  Anyways we've tried talking to him before but to no avail.  So we decided to get our bold pants on because she can only progress so far without baptism.  And it strengthened my testimony seeing how Christ is the WHY of everything, and also his doctrine.  We just taught him baptism, why we do it, what it's for, etc and his heart was softened and he is going to allow her to be baptized!!!! :) Miracles!!! She was ecstatic when she found out because she has been wanting it for forever!! So that was exciting!! So her and NarissaMay will be this weekend coming up!! :)

  And this last weekend we were blessed to witness the baptism of our man Clayton Wihongi! My second Clayton on the mission! haha might need to name a son that I dunno! It was an awesome baptism and it's breaking the way that we may be able to bring in the rest of his family! The dad's a member but the mom and two older brothers aren't.  So hopefully more miracles come because of Claytron! We're hoping so! I've been able to see that quite a bit on my mission where a member of the family paves the way for the rest of them to join! So we'll see!! So that was a lot of fun! Church and the confirmation on Sunday was really special! More good stuff! Oh the blessings of serving a mission! Things like that just make it all worth it! :)

  On Sunday, due to some incidents with a missionary that I can't share with you.  We've had to do like a 4 day trade off and on Tuesday when they all come up for Christmas Conference he'll be E-shifted out.. So that's been interesting the last couple of days!! He wasn't allowed to go to his ward so I went with his companion.  And of course when the ward sees a new face what happens?! A 15 minute talk like always!! haha So that was another good growing experience for me.  I used to hate stuff like that but now I love it!! Felt like Niue again where every sunday I gave like a 30 minute talk!! haha So I didn't mind! 

 So last week was a great one and last night we got a chance to watch the First Presidency Xmas Devotional.  And oh my goodness that was so incredible... One of the best I've seen it was just wonderful!!! :)  So coming up this week we have our Christmas conference this Tuesday where the leaders of the  mission are coming up here and also Elder Watson of the Seventy who used to be a secretary to the first presidency for 40 years will be addressing us!!! So that'll be awesome!!! :) And it's just our zone not the mission so that'll be a lot of fun! I love being with the whole zone!! Also NarissaMay and Roimatas baptism this weekend so please pray for that!!:)

 Well I love you all and hope your enjoying this beautiful time of year!!! Always remember what it's truly about and cherish those thoughts and memories!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! :)

 

Love Elder Devey

December 4, 2011

Tis the Season to be Jolly!!

Hey everyone!! :) How are you all doing?! I'm just doing absolutely fantastic!! I hope everyone has the spirit of Christmas and is enjoying the winter time!! It's way too hot here! haha

 Things went really good this last week! We worked our tails off that's for sure!  The week started on fire that's for sure! Monday night was just on fire!! And we kept it burning throughout the week.  That's our little zone theme up here anyways! "The Bush is on Fire!" We're up here in the bush as they call it in the Pacific and it's been on fire lately!

  So a week ago I forgot to tell a couple of cool stories! First of all we were invited by good ol Jigs Ngawaka to come and speak at multiple funerals on Marais.  Which is the Maori, sacred cultural halls that they do everything in.  They're so cool! Anyways he never got to get a hold of us so we weren't able to go and do it! I wish we were! That would have been so much fun!! That would have been an experience of a lifetime. Whole villages come to funerals because everyone is family in the Maori culture.  So it would have been intense! Also last week Sister Ngawaka turned 70 and she invited us to her family dinner celebration thing at a nice restaraunt.  So we spent our dinner hour there.  The Maoris when they do these family gatherings people are called up to say some words and than to give a musical talent.  And so during it we're sitting there minding our own business and there's heaps of people there.  Just eating out steaks which I haven't had since home by the way! And Pamela calls the missionaries up to say some words! haha there's heaps of less-actives and non-members there.  Elder Spence right away looks at me and says you know them better than I do!! haha So I have to go up and say some words about Sister Ngawaka! After I'm done than I realize  have to do some sort of musical talent! I was like uh oh!!  Good thing the Murray's were there and of course my faithful companion:) So got them to come up, Brother Murray on the Eukalele and we sang I am a Child of God haha! So that was a fun experience!!

 Anyways back to this last week! We did a few trade offs which are always fun! I love working with other missionaries and learning from them and their strengths! For some reason this week, like never before since I've been here, we did over 5 blessings at a nearby hospital for members which was a great experience.  We love having opportunities to exercise the priesthood and God's power given to man.  So that was great experiences!!

  Also two companionships fought actually, but it began with one of them first.  A tongan and a canadian!  A bad mix! They got in a fight and we had to go over and snap them out of it!!! When you walked into the flat you could just feel the tension!! It was crazy!! So we took them into separate rooms and talked to each one.  Of course I took the Tongan my Masi!!!! And we worked things out, brought em back and talked all together than got them to hug and make up!! haha fun stuff!! :) Also another companionship has been grinding heads to! One came in with me Elder Sorenson.  So we had to go on a blitz with them and work them out as well!!! It's a joke! Though Islanders may be prideful in their own ways but also very humble, some palangis have a hard time with them.  I love em to death I don't see how you can't get along with them!!! So we're helping the missionaries there!   So that's been some funny stuff!

 We reset Brownie, the musician(man he's incredible no joke!) to the 24th Of December!! I'm dreaming and hoping of a white Christmas!! He has quite a bit of word of wisdom issues which everyone does!  So we gave him a blessing and he's been doing great! He's pumped about baptism as well!!  This Saturday missionaries here in Whangarei had quite a few baptisms so we went to all of them! That's what I love about being a Zone Leader, getting to see all the baptisms!! One of them couldn't get anyone to preside so we had to! haha that was a new experience as well:) Sunday was really great in Whangaruru again.  We love it so much there! Had lunch with our fav's the Saddlers who are just the coolest people ever!!  And the same old story out there! Just teachin and preachin!!

 hmm... Think that's all that's worth tellin!! So things are great here! Hoping this is my 6 month area!! Love the Northland of New Zealand to death!! :)  Hope you all have a wonderful week and Happy Holidays!!!! :)

 

Love Elder Devey

November 27, 2011

Hey there everyone!!! :) Hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving! Besides that dinner with that one family there is no such thing as Thanksgiving out here so it was a bit of a bummer! They don't even really eat Turkey out here, only at Christmas time.  So Elder Spence and I did the next best thing! KFC!! As you know that's huge here in New Zealand.  So we got a massive feed there on Thanksgiving to celebrate.  That was a lot of fun:)


  Anyways not much new this week! We reset some people for December and more hiccups got in the way again.. Brownie has too many word of wisdom issues so he couldn't go in this weekend.  And also our man Clayton had a death in the family, so the whole family took off to the funeral.. Nothing we could really do about both of those so we didn't have any baptisms last weekend.  The whole mission in fact really struggled this month.  They hit a low in baptisms since Feb 2010. We got like 83 when we usually get 150-200s.  So there's a lot of repenting in the mission and rededication.. So we know December will be huge!


 But ya this month was rough for our zone as well!  On Tuesday we had a Zone Conference up here in Whangarei.  That was a lot of fun! Some wonderful inspiring trainings that I know will help the missionaries a lot in their efforts.  We made a big "title of liberty' flag for our zone and did a lot of other fun things!  There has been a companionship in the zone that has needed a lot of correcting as of late, so we have to keep trying to keep them in line! Frustrating! I just don't understand some things missionaries do it's pathetic.  Well anyways ya the conference was very good and it helped me out personally a lot as well:)


This saturday the Whangarei areas had a few baptisms though so we went to all of those and of course there's nothing better than watching a baptism! And this Sunday we did our usual sunday schedule and went out to our favorite Whangaruru! :) Love it out there! Had a massive lunch with the beloved Saddler family.  As some of you may know before the mission I hated seafood!! Well since Niue it's hands down my favorite!!! And on Niue you heard we did some pretty out of it stuff! Members would toss their catch straight from the sea and we'd pull the Gollum and just tear it apart and eat it right than and there! As fresh and raw as you can get it! Anyways so with the Maori's they have a lot of seafood that is their specialties and out in Whangaruru they feed it to us like crazy! Like the Kena(sea urchin) Pipi, Crayfish, etc etc! And there's heaps of sharks off the coast out there so we're hoping to get some shark soon!


 Heard some crazy stories from the members out there! It's a whole different world out there everyone is just barebacking horses ridin around on the beaches and it's just so laid back and beautiful! Never seen anything like it! By far the most beautiful area I have served in!! Like I've said before I love serving as a Zone Leader up here in the great Northland it has been so much fun!! We just got to all step up our game!! Besides all of that there's not much else to update you guys with!! Just love you all and hope you have an awesome week this next week!!! Love ya!!!! :)

November 20, 2011

November 20, 2011

Hey everybody!! How is everyone this wonderful week?!  I got the legit detailed story of Amber's engagement.  Russell the muscle that romantic guy! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :) Too much fun!!! It's great to hear from you all and I'm so thankful for all your support and love in my behalf! I can feel it! It's the fuel to keep me moving no doubt about it!!! 

This last week was awesome!! So last pday was pretty lame.  We had to drive a new missionary to Wellsford, half of the way to Auckland so that took up most of the pday! :( So here in New Zealandreligion is very diverse you've got it all here.  So we get to hear and experience a lot of different things! haha sometimes pretty weird or hostile! On monday we had a dinner with this very loving family who is Christian.  The dad at the end was giving us a prayer and he pulled a Book of Mormon pass out onto the floor!! It was a bit different but turns out he was acting it all out as a "manifestation of the spirit".  Interesting stuff we get to see out here! 

This week we were able to get a couple of new sets! So we've got quite a lot with dates it's just little things keep getting in the way it's driving us insane and people get pushed back.  We're thinking of having a ward fast to help these investigators overcome those hiccups.  So miracles are on their way!! We did a massive service project at a member's house this week the Lilley's.  He owns his own radio station and to say the least is a wealthy man! ha He lives at the very highest point in Whangarei above the Buddhist temple!.  Just an awesome house but a bit worldly!  He has all these paddocks on hills with horses in them and we cut all the grass and took down fences and burnt things etc it took ages!!

 The young woman had a car wash this week so to support we let them was our car:) hehe! win win! Also a family in the ward does actually celebrate Thanksgiving every year because the have Whanau(family) in America! They get it on the wrong day but it's all good!! So we got to go have a New Zealand style thanksgiving feast! That was a lot of fun!! My favorite holiday!! So transfers did happen and we're both staying as Zone Leaders here! We were pumped!! I get to kill off ol Elder Spence!! So this transfer will be very fun!!! So glad I"m staying! This will tie my longest in an area, 4 and a half months, my greeenie area in South Aucks, Manurewa(also known as the hood).:) I've bounced around my entire mission it's been a lot of fun! Leaving the country, going North and South!! Been able to see it all!! Oh and guess what else?! Our mission just got the Cook Islands in it as well!!! Came off the Tonga mission and now we got them and Niue!! Who knows maybe if i'm lucky I'll got out to the Cooks!! Kiriana!!! I wish!! haha :) I was lucky once before so we'll see! 

We also set a man named Brownie for baptism and his daughter.  He's a very talented musician and is old and has seen a lot of trials.. So it's been special teaching him and seeing him making the changes he needs to in life! That's this weekend actually!! :) But his daughter's mom isn't allowing the daughter.. more hiccups!! But Brownie is still all good!! So this weekend should be Brownie and Clayton.  Roimata's parents said no because she's been christined.. But we'll see about that!! So there's a lot of people up in the air that can be baptized at any moment it's just gonna take us putting our bold pants on and getting it done!! :) The wards been a big help as of late!! We had a mean ward council where they're organizing things for one of our "dry members" Bertha who we have taught for a Coon's age to get married finally!! So they're attacking that! Hopefully we have a wedding and a baptism soon!! :) The wards, both of them, are absolutely awesome!!!!

Sunday we missed Hikurangi's completely because we had a baptism out in Punaruku again!!! They got to baptize last month and this month!! Miracles!! :) Her name is Kadis Snowden! A young girl who's just awesome! So many part member families out there! So that baptism was a lot of fun!! It was an awesome Sunday!! And another moment that I just love! The Lord and his timing!! Showed up right when someone needed us it was really special.. Kia, in her 20s, and her husband Sam whose a nonmember.  Kia was having a very rough time and we came right when we needed to.. Helped her and she was smiling by the end it was beautiful.  Sam's getting close to baptism!! The other day Bertha, that one investigator.  She had a miscarriage and we came right after she found out and were able to give her a blessing.. Another special one that helped her a lot it was very sad.. Than Brownie, broke up with his long time partner who has been holding him back from baptism.  We came right when he was at a very bad low.. Helped him, and now he's getting baptized..

 There has been miracles daily as of late and we contribute it all to the Lord and this magnificent work!! It's been amazing being able to be instruments in his hands.. If we are but willing, faithful, and obedient.. The Lord, through us, can truly move mountains.. No better place have I learned this than on the mission!!! :) God is a God of miracles and I love him with all my heart... Just as Joseph Smith once said regarding the gospel. "In it I'll live, and for it I'll die."  I hope one day that I may have faith as the great ones who have gone before.. But I do trust My God completely... He has control over all things and knows exactly how we feel.. He loves us unconditionally and is very mindful of us.. Of this I testify!!!  I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!!! May God be with you til we meet again!!!1 :) Arohanui!!! (I love you)1!!!!!!!

 

Love Elder Devey

Nov. 13, 2011

 

Hi everyone!! :) Well quick shout out to Amber and Russell first of all!! They're engaged! WOOO!!!! haha :) Congratulations! How awesome is that?!  Too much!! Devestated i'm not there for any of it!! Oh well I'm just excited anyways!! Well this week was another good one and they just get faster and faster I'm tellin ya!

There was a lot of hard things this week though.. Raiha and Narissamay are completely dropped now.. Narissa's mum is stopping her because she's too caught up in the things of the world and she's not "ready" for her daughter to be baptized.. Absolute joke! So we're still working on that! But for now the mom won't let her.. So that was really hard to swallow. Also Raiha completely just said no because she's to into the wrong stuff with all of her mates.. We're still working with her but it won't be any time soon. So out of nowhere our two sets just drop off the charts and it was really hard.. Things like this on the mission really suck! But oh well! Not complainin! The Lord's in control of all things and it's in his hands! We just do the best we can, qualify, and live worthy and I know that the Lord will provide!! It's his promise:)

 But on the other hand!! We got Cadice and Roimata for this next weekend!! So that's exciting!! :) They're both so awesome!! Also have our friend Clayton who we set a few nights ago for the end of this month!! So let the good times roll!! :) This last week we had Zone Leader council again.  Felt like we were just down there!! Monthly feels way to often! haha but it was wonderful.  I love those meetings so much! Receive so much revelation and learn so many wonderful things.  So that was really good! And they did it at a better time so we didn't have to drive down the night before and sleep somewhere.  We got to go in the morning so that was nice.  But ya besides that! Transfers is this week so we'll see what happens! We're pretty sure that we'll stay together and I'll kill Elder Spence off.  We're hoping so! I definantely am because I love it here and I love Elder Spence to bits!! :)

So we'll see what happens! Maybe change of plans and I'm off somewhere else who knows?! I want to stay in this area for a long time it wouldn't be enough just the 3 months.  It's the best zone ever here!!! :) Well I love you all and I miss you very much and hope you have a wonderful week!!! :)

Love Elder Devey

Nov. 6, 2011

Hey everybody!!! :)

I've never heard of this holiday until I got to New Zealand but guyfox is their July 4th apparently and that just happened Saturday  night! haha so some fireworks here and there but pathetic compared to back home! Well anyways how is everyone doing?!  I hope that you're all doing absolutely wonderful!

Things have been going awesome here! We've been working harder than ever and we're seeing the blessings pouring in so it has been a lot of fun!! :) This last week we did a lot of trade offs and things so that was fun! It's always fun working with our missionaries.  So things have been really awesome here! Nothing to new or exciting to report! Just that we've been working hard and we're having fun doing so! Transfers are already coming up very soon! :( Which is a joke! Time is just way too fast! But I better stay here!

Out of my whole mission this has been my favorite area and zone to serve in! It's just absolutely stunning out here.. Not only that but the work is great and the people are wonderful here! I just love it so much!! And I really enjoy being with Elder Spence.  So we hope that I'll be with him to his end! Hoping for it! But we'll see what happens! So besides that.. Well we have 3 baptisms this weekend so that's really fun!! 2 here in Hikurangi and 1 in Whangaruru:) So please pray for those!! Well I love you all very much!!! Have a wonderful week!!!

Love Elder Devey!

Ps pic of Halloween! Ibeneze and Demarsio 2 of our baptisms from last month in their costumes

Hey everybody Happy Halloween!!! It's pretty lame here nobody really does anything for Halloween! Oh well! We were thinking if we door knocked tonight and people reject us we could just say it's a costume and see if they'll give us candy!! haha but no way we'd do that!! Well how is everyone?! I hope everyone is doing wonderful!! 

This last week was absolutely wonderful!! It was so much fun this last week:) We went and spent pday in Kaikohe and than went and worked with the elders in Kataia.  The furthest north you get in the mission.  Elder Pohahau up there is a Tongan who definantely is the biggest man I've ever seen in my life and he snoors like a troll!! He's the most humble faithful missionary I have ever seen though! As you get with most of the islanders! Speaking of which it's weird to not have an islander companion! So for pday what did we do? Of course we played touch all day! It was legit though there was heaps of investigators and members that came and we even had a ref so it was way fun!! Can't move like I used to and now the body is more wiggly and jiggly than ever!! haha Oh well!! Comes with the call! Especially here in New Zealand. After that we just have gone crazy in our area! It's fun when we haven't been able to talk to to much people because of lessons we'll drive down to the city and just go nuts chasing people and such!! haha That's always a highlight of the week. 

 So Raiha and Narissa-may have still been in Auckland so their baptism is "supposed" to be the 5th now.. It better be! Old man jibs keeps gettin in the way with his work!! So we'll see, but the Lord provided for us anyways! So last Sunday in Whangaruru those mean bay areas.  We found an 8 year old boy whose been going to church there for awhile who set up his own baptism!! haha so we meet him last Sunday, go talk with his mom.  The mom asks can we get him baptized next weekend? We're like of course!! haha We record check the mom because apparently she was baptized in a creek when she was young by she doesn't know who.. Turns out no record at all so the boy is a convert.. haha crazy eh?! We teach him sunday morning get everything ready as fast as possible and he's baptized and confirmed on Sunday!!! :) So we ended with 3 for the month which was a huge blessing!! Miracles are everywhere up here!! WE're loving it!@!!! :) Next weekend we have those two, than the next another one in Whangaruru which is really fun because they haven't baptized for awhile so these two months will be really good for them!! So weekends of baptisms! The Lord is just so loving and merciful!! We don't deserve all this but we're very grateful for it all!! I'll a send pic of the man Duncan:) 

What else?.. Hmm not to sure! Oh one day things just collapsed! a miracle set we had Adrian that I think I spoke of last week.. Suddenly the adversary got to him and he just dropped us!! It was really sad! It was hard he was so great!! Hate it when things like that happen on the mission.. Best of times and worst of times at some points!! I just don't think people understand how important our message is to their eternal welfare!!! That's why we're out here chasing people!!! The blessings are on their way:) Well I'm grateful for all of your support, love, and prayers from home!! I need them!! I miss you all and pray for you as well!! Have a wonderful week I love you all so much!!!!

Love Elder Devey

Ps pics of baptism, me with crayfish and kena on my head! Seafood favs they were all still alive and moving! E. Spence's 21st bday! And a beach at Whangaruru:) enjoy!!

Oct. 23rd, 2011

Hello there everybody!! :) Hope everyone has had a wonderful week and that everything is just going awesome with everybody as of late!! I am doing wonderful here!! Just giving my all to the Lord and I love it more than anything!! It's the best!! Who could complain?! 

This last week was really fun and we worked our tails off!! There's been a big concern with the holidays and the world cup! The last two weeks have been holidays from school and than of course the world cup has brought the entire country into pure chaos!!! So it's been hard to do our thing! Our two sets there just keep getting pushed back because they have been in Auckland for a Coon's age!! It's been rough but we definantely have faith for this weekend!! Things have been really fun! I really enjoy working with Elder Spence.  We get a long great and it's fun to be with someone that has that sense of humor and comes from my nick of the woods.  It's been really fun and we've been working so hard together I've just loved it!

We've really been able to have a lot of success lately.

 Lots of new people we have found and are teaching and they are incredible! And just yesterday we went to the most beautiful place on Earth my favorite Punaruku!! Found two children who are unbaptized and set one up for next weekend and also another next month!  So there has been miracles all around! Also one guy that we talked to ages ago on his doorstep and invited him to be baptized we haven't been able to catch up with him for a long time.  And than we finally did and turns out he's been reading heaps of the book of mormon, has quit smoking cold turkey since we talked to him and other marvelous things that we had no clue about! He's been progressing without us coming around so that was cool! :) There has just been many wonderful things this last week!! Nothing better than the mission that's for sure!!

The zones been doing really good! We've been on a lot of tradeoffs lately which i always enjoy working with other missionaries!! It's a fun calling that's for sure just very busy and stressful!! Haha but this is what I signed up for!! :) Besides that I don't know what else to update ya'll on! Just can't believe that it's already almost halloween!! What in tarnation?! Time flies and it's pretty scary!! Well I love you all and please pray for me as I pray for you all!!  Love yous!!!!!

Love Elder Devey

Oct. 16th 2011

Thought'd I'd say hello like our good prophet!! :) That was such a wonderful conference!!  Well I hope everything is still going wonderful for everyone! I love and miss you all very much!! This last week was a pretty funny one.  We were in Auckland basically most of the week! We had to go down for Zone Leader council and than also for leadership training. Which was absolutely just awesome!! They were very good meetings.  I was able to learn so much! I love going to those meetings they're just incredible! Being with those experienced missionaries it's just a great experience! So that was really fun! So coming back into our area we had a lot of work to do so we went nuts when we got back. And we just had an incredible week! It was a very fun productive week!

 I've really enjoyed being with Elder Spence.  We've been working very hard and we're so excited for the things coming our way!! The Zone is doing great right now! We have a lot of awesome missionaries here! So can't compain about circumstances! Tommorrow we'll be having interviews with President! I love interviews and it's been a long time so looking forward to that!! And those two baptisms that were supposed to happen are going to have to be pushed back unfortunately! The grandpa randomly took them all to Auckland over the weekend that goofy old man so that's postponed until further notice! Besides that I don't know what else to update you guys on! It's been a good week and i'm just enjoying and reaping the blessings of serving our Master!! Nothing better! I hope that everyone has a great week this week and I'll be praying for you all!! I love and miss you guys so much!!

 

Love Elder Devey

October 9th, 2011

It's hard to think up titles each week but the famous 'kia ora' always will do:) Well how is everyone?! Is that so?! That's what I love to hear yo!! So everyone is being blessed what's new?! Well so are we!! This last weak was awesome!!! I just love missionary work so much!! I don't know if you knew that but I do!!! More than anything it's the best!! Well we were finally able to watch general conference this weekend! And for those of you who have served missions you know what it's like to watch it in the field! It's like 110 times better than the super bowl, prom, wingers, all of it i tell ya!! :) And this one, well each one i watch, just gets better and better.  This one was so amazing It pumped us all up like noone's business:) So what do we do? Well we do how we do and we save souls!!

So back to the top! This last week was good I'm back to my healthy self.  I was up in the North for awhile doing their meeting and helping the missionaries.  We had a lot of success up there it was a lot of fun! Than came back down to the best Whangarei where we got things all worked out for transfers on Thursday.  And that sucks as a zone leader! It's just pure chaos! haha Our zone has completely changed it's insane! Every single companionship except for 1 is a new arrangement.  Transfers was really fun though! Getting mail, seeing other missionaries all that good stuff.  And now I'm with Elder Spence and guess what?.... Believe it or not but my FIRST yes you heard me my first UTAH companion!!!! :) Haven't had a white companion since... The beginning?! Choice eh?! He's from Oak City and goes home in 12 weeks apparently, he won't say it but I found out.  He's the man! It's been fun working with him.  He's definantely a hard urgent worker that's for sure!! So excited about that! Hard to see my Mauri go away but I love change and it's awesome to be with him!! He has a lot of the same sayings I used to say back in the day and it's funny to hear them again.  So things are going awesome here!! :) 

This coming weekend we have 2 more of "Jibs" Mokoz.  Raiha and Narissa-May:)  Raiha is 17 and NM is 10!! So we're pumped about that!! This month has been a fruitful month due to hard work, the mercies of the Lord, faith and good ol Jibs missionary work!! W're really excited and just so very greatful!!! Well as of late it's basically impossible to write in my journal so mom you better be holding onto all of these!! By the way my mom's the best!! :)  There's so much potential here we just need to get to work and many more souls will be entering the kingdom that's for sure!! This week we have zone leader council and leadership training.  So we got to make the drives down to Auckland once again!! Just driving like always! haha Road trip!! Let's see what else?.. Not to sure!! Our zone is doing awesome!! Great missionaries it's fun to be working with them.  Well we're gonna go to Burger King now ha We'll chat next week but thank you all for your prayers and for your support and love.. It makes a WORLD of difference trust me!! Please pray for us here and I'll pray for you!! I love you all and miss you very much and hope the best this upcoming week!!! Love ya'll!!!! :)

 

Arohanui Kia Kaha!!! Elder Devey

October 2nd, 2011

Hey everyone!! :)
Hope you all had a fantastic week this last week! I know in my last email I sounded like I was going to die! haha Well good news I'm a lot better now! So that disease or sickness that has been spreading that apparently a few people have died from is called Meningitis I think? Anyways when I went to the doctor he thought it was the beginning of this sickness so that was pretty scary!  He said at least it would be influenza.  Which it was I'm pretty sure because I'm better now.  If I had not gotten better but got more sick they would have had to rush me to the hospital! So that was pretty scary! haha The doctor would call everyday to see if I was feeling better or if other symptoms started occurring.  But things are good now so no worries!! :)

Most of this week I was really really sick though.  I haven't been that sick in a long time it just destroyed me!! haha but no worries now I'm back to my old self!! :) So the awesome things from this last week is that we baptized two of Brother Ngawaka's Mokos(grandchildren)!!! Ibeneze and Demarsio and yes they're named after the guitars! They're such cute kids! Brother Ngawaka baptized both of them and my companion and I did the confirmations on Sunday! It was a real blessing to be a part of all of that!! Nothing better than baptisms on your mission that's for sure!! :) The Zone is looking really good this month! We're on target for our personal best!! Which was like a year ago with 21! We have 20 solid sets right now in the zone and this last weekend we had 4 baptisms! :)

So this month is looking very promising and we're so excited about that!!  We haven't been able to see conference yet that will happen this weekend so no baptisms than.  But the weekend after that hopefully we'll finish off these Mokos!! They're all so awesome! :) Can't wait for General Conference!! Feel like it's the Prom or the Super Bowl or something!! Absolutely pumped about it! We've already found out a few changes going on! We already know that Elder Whaanga my comp will be going back to Auckland as a District Leader.  So I'll have a new companion this Thursday! Change is always fun!! Our two district leaders are going home today actually!! Pretty crazy I know!! So my companion and I are going to have to split up and do district meetings tomorrow for the missionaries.  So back up to the North I go!! :)

I love it up there! So this will be a very busy hectic week that's for sure!! God will take care of everything so it's all good! Well things are going great here as always I can never complain it's the Lord's work I'm a part of so I have to be happy!! haha The gospel is a happy thing!  Well I love you all very much and hope you have another wonderful week and that the Lord is blessing you all greatly at this time! Keep up the hard work and know that this kiwi down here misses and loves you all!!! :)

September 26, 2011

Hey everybody!!! :) How's it going?! I hope absolutely wonderful!! Everything's all good here besides the fact that I've been deathly ill lately! Like no exaggeration on the deathly ill! I've never had to stay at the flat and not proselyte but it happened! My comp wouldn't let me go out! I wanted to but he forced me to stay home and miss church.  Because I guess some serious virus has been going around.. Hopefully I don't have it but I haven't felt this way before so maybe I caught it I don't know!! :( Yesterday I couldn't move AT all!! I was asleep the entire day.. Same with this morning.  My body just has no strength and my head kills, my throat, my nose, everything it's just rough!! But it's all good I'll be better soon!! :)

So this last week was fun! The whole zone headed down monday night for the temple the following day.  This is one part I do not like about being a zone leader is organizing all these things and executing them! Stressful I tell ya! But Monday night was fun because we blitzed everyone's areas actually in my last zone! So I of course went into my old area in Papatoetoe and saw everyone who was baptized the day after I left! haha Went and saw Junior and Allison right away.  Junior's getting the Aaronic priesthood.. Just yesterday! They were saying how their goal now is the temple! They're just so awesome!:) So we shared all about temples and I committed them to go right at their year mark! That would be a week before I go home and I could go through with them! haha That's the plan anyways!

Than saw Miriana and her son lil Richy who was baptized they gave me a gift they're too sweet! So that was fun going back in my old area! In the morning we were off to the temple!!! :) What a beautiful day that was! It was so much fun it was incredible.. Nothing like the temple to get you pumped up and excited to go out and work! I love the temple so much... It's just so amazing so that was really special for me:) Went out to Punaruke, Whangaruru this last week! Driving and preaching by the way on the beaches which is unreal! We have some people out there now that are working towards baptism! Went on a few trade offs in the zone this last week. 

We had a conference call with the zone this morning.  So things are really busy and really fun!! Just hope I get feeling better!! We should be having 4 baptisms this saturday.  Raiha and Ibaneze, Damazio, and Narissa-May.  Bro. Ngawaka's grandchildren:) So pray for that please!!! Well love you all and miss you so much!!! Have a wonderful week I love you1!!!!! :)

Love Elder Devey

Kia Ora!!!

Hi everybody!!! :) Another week down!! Here I am once again! How was the week for everyone?! I hope just wonderful!!! Well let's see how creative I can get with thinking of new things to write! haha just messing!! This last week was awesome!! I spent a few days away from my comp working with Kaikohe and Kataia.  The furthest furthest north you can get in New Zealand.  Those poor elders out there all alone! It's like Niue!! haha So I spent District Meeting up there and Pday and all that good stuff! It was way fun the missionaries out there are awesome! :) What's from Africa and the other is Tongan they're way funny!! So that was a lot of fun! That's what I love about being here I get to go all over with all the missionaries and get to know them all it's alot of fun because we have some incredible missionaries up here. 

Pday we went to some scenic places in the North.  We all played touch on a beach which was way fun than went and took pictures where the two oceans meet I'll attach these photos.  So that was really fun.  We worked really hard this last week and it felt like we finally had time to work!! We got a lot done and October is looking like it will be a really good month for us! We have this Ngawaka family set on the 1st and there will be 5 of them so pray for that! They're awesome! They're grandpa is the man and he does so much missionary work for us he's awesome! He needs all his grandchildren baptized so we're helping him with that!

 Things are going great here I"m finally getting used to everything and I'm enjoying it very much it is super busy though!!! I think I said last week about how President came with us and we're teaching his mother in law.  Sh'es incredible!! We keep helping her and president always calls to see how she's going so it's a bit scary having him wathcing it all! haha We had Stake conference this last Sunday where the temple president and his wife came also President and Sister Lekias came as well! So that was really good! :) Today our whole zone will be driving all the way down to Auckland for the night and we're gonna just blitz another zone.  Than in the morning we have our temple trip!! :) YaY!!! Can't wait!!! :) So that's exciting!!

Tomorrow we get to go through the temple again! But ya we have been having some bleeding in the zone.. A lot of sets falling through even ourselves so it has been a little hard this last week but it's all good!! We have a lot of good things coming our way!!! :)

Well I love ya all heaps!!! Hope you have a wonderful week!! Love ya!! Arohanui!!!!

Love Elder Devey

Hey everybody!

Hello everyone!! :) How's everyone doing?!
Geeze after awhile it feels like I"m writing the exact same email every week!! They come and go so fast it feels like everyday! Well I always love to report to you all about what's going on and what's new!! So this last week was a pretty crazy week! One thing I don't like about being a Zone Leader is that we have to do so many errands and things it's not even funny! This week we were hardly in our own proselyting area it was really weird! So P-day actually was pretty boring last week.  Nobody had money to do anything! But it was alright!

Then monday night we came all the way up to Kaikohe which is the very very north of New Zealand.  We worked with the missionaries up here for the night than spent Tuesday with them as well and went to District Meeting with them.  It was really fun we're so blessed to have such wonderful missionaries in the zone.  They're just incredible!

Than Tuesday night we made the long trip all the way to Auckland and stayed with missionaries in Henderson the Zone leaders there elder Moss and Kitchen.  Than Wednesday morning was Zone leader council.  And this was the first time in a long time and the last time that I would ever see Elder Atkin on the mission again! He's going home this transfer.. Ah I love that guy so much!! It was fun being there with him! The council was awesome:) Learned so much it was just mean!! I was definantely the youngest missionary there haha.  President was sure to point that out! They're all such amazing missionaries I am so not worthy to be there with them!!  There's l0ots of really cool changes happening in the mission I'm excited!

So we finally got back Wednesday night to our area.  Than President Lekias came and worked with us for the day on Thursday!! How lucky are we?! He's really awesome like that! He loves to come and work with the missionaries in the field!  That was a lot of fun!! :) We had all the missionaries and senior couples in the area meet up and Elder Whaanga and I ran a District Meetinng with everyone there.  Fun day but never had that experience with working directly with a Mission President! Besides Niue but that's all service basically!! :) So that was a big surprise!! Than Friday is planning and things for the Zone like ALL day!! So

Saturday was like our only full on legit day to work in our own area!! It was a really strange crazy week!!! But it was so much fun I just love serving what can I say?! :)  We have a temple trip coming up soon!! Can not wait for that!! So excited!! I really took for granted temples back home!!! Because this feels like.. Ah I don't know how to explain it!! Better than the super bowl or anything else that's for sure!! And we have stake conference this week! President Lekias and also the temple president will be coming:) Besides that not much else going on!! Just figuring out what I'm doing!! It's a work in progress that's for sure!! But I love being out here more than anything.. What a privilege and honor it is to be here serving the Master.. I love you all and miss you so much!!! Have a fantastic week!!!! :) LOVE YOU!!!!

Love Elder Devey

Putting our shoulder to the wheel

Hi everybody!!! :) Hello once again from the pacific! Hope everyone is doing just wonderful and having a great time! This week was another awesome week but so so busy!! 

 So from the top! Last pday was bag to the good old touch! I always love playing touch but it was hilarious because we are all so out of shape because of the mission and it took 10 minutes of playing and guys were already laying around! Pathetic eh?  Well I hate to admit but I was one of them!! haha I'm not what I used to be! But at least there's hope of a resurrection! ha just messin! 

Tuesday was the first District meeting in a while where I didn't have to conduct it so that felt like a load was taken off a bit! But now you kinda feel like the big bad wolf coming in and giving your training! But it was really fun! I've enjoyed it very much being a zone leader.  Our zone is really close and unified.  Everyone is very obedient and works hard so we're really excited for what's coming our way! We had a few trade offs this week!  I went with the only Indian in our mission Elder Singh! That was fun and than also the assistants to the President came on a trade off with us.  That was so much fun!! Learned SO much from Elder Greening!! :) He's just incredible!

 We had heaps of miracles that day!! 3 accepted the invitation to be baptized and 2 of those we're people we talked to on their doorsteps and invited them there! It was just a crazy fun day! Than after that this weekend we spent most of it out in Punaruku! That little bay area the most beautiful ward in the country!! We stayed the night at that beach house and had an awesome couple of days!  Worked a lot with the members and got to meet a lot of the people and finding new people to teach.  We want to get that area pumping because the missionaries have kind of not really worked there much since it's far away.  But we know there are souls to be saved out there so we're doing what we can!! :) It was fun staying there it's absolutely stunning!! 

The members are just so great! They're incredible!! Also from my last area in Papatoetoe a couple in our ward that we'd always go around to and also who would help us heaps for fellowship and feeding us moved to Whangarei while I still had like a week left there.  And guess what in little Punaruku all of the sudden we go to this one house and he starts yelling out the window "Elder Devey"!!! It was crazy no way did I think I'd find them out in Punaruku! So they were a little less active back in papa2toes so we got them to come to church this last Sunday and they had us over for dinner after that! A mean feed by the way!! :) So that was really cool to find them here! We basically moved out at the same time to the same ward!!  Sundays are funny because both of our wards start at the same time but are far away.  In Hikurangi ward we teach the gospel principles class like most missionaries do in New Zealand.  But after that as a result of a ward council we had last week we organized a missionary lesson for the entire ward.  So it was combined last hour with everyone and we just hit them hard on member missionary work to get the ward going hard! It was way fun!! We brought heaps of books of mormon and committed everyone to give one to one of their friends this week and we got quite a few refferals after the block! It was way cool!! Ah I just love missionary work so much!! :) If you work hard God takes care of everything! So things are going great here just trying to be a sponge to learn all that I can! My companion has had bad tooth problems lately and we just came from the dentist and he may need a root canal!! So that'll be interesting! Besides that not much else to update you on!! I called Elder Atkin not that long ago because we can call other Zone Leaders! That was fun he's going home at the end of this transfer! Anyways think I said some of these things on my last email! Oh well i know you love it! Hope you all have a fantastic week and May God be with you til we meet again!!!! :)

 

Love Elder Devey